CANANDAIGUA — After choosing to not include a fee for a proposed landlord database, City Council has placed the proposed rental registration housing law on the agenda for Thursday's meeting.

The law would require owners of residential rental property to provide contact information, including phone numbers and emails to the city. The ordinance — which was introduced and tabled during the Sept. 5 meeting at City Hall — also requires the property owner to obtain a permit on a yearly basis. There was discussion of a fee with this permit; however, landowners who attended the Sept. 24 Finance Committee meeting made it clear they were not in favor of this option.

Some were against the ordinance regardless of the fee situation.

"(The ordinance) takes away the right to rent property without a fee … It has nothing to do with collecting information," downtown landowner Mike Yarger said during the Finance Committee meeting. "This whole ordinance should be thrown out."

The council took an unofficial vote on the potential fee during that meeting. The vote was 7-1 against a fee, with councilmember Maria Bucci supporting a modest fee and councilmember David Winter absent. As a result, the council chose not to pursue a permit charge.

Also on the agenda:

— A public hearing regarding the city's comprehensive plan is slated for 7 p.m. Thursday. After more than a year's worth of work, a review committee gave its recommendations and update on the original 2002 document to City Council. The city's Planning Committee has discussed the comprehensive plan during meetings this summer.

— An ordinance to prohibit smoking and the use of tobacco near city playgrounds will be introduced and tabled Thursday. If it chooses to do so, City Council could vote on the ban during the November City Council meeting.

— Additionally, a resolution to hire an information management needs assessment firm for $23,000 is on the agenda. According to City Manager David Forrest, the results of the needs assessment will allow the city to better manage records, infrastructure and facilities, along with services to the public via the use of information software.

"We do a lot of things with pen and paper," Forrest said. "We need to do better than that."

The company on the resolution is Access Systems, from Manlius, Onondaga County.